Free Internet access will be given to more neighborhoods across New York as the Big Apple aims to build a “wireless corridor” designed to boost business, officials announced Monday.<\/p>\n
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that from December free web access would be available in neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island, Queens and Manhattan.<\/p>\n
New York has already created free Internet zones in around 20 parks and the Chelsea area of downtown Manhattan, the latter at the initiative of US technology giant Google.<\/p>\n
Bloomberg said the “wireless corridor” scheme would be funded by both the private and public sectors, with $900,000 of local government funding against $3.4 million of private money.<\/p>\n
New York officials say the aim of the project is to create technology hubs in the city’s five boroughs catering to cultural and educational growth as well as low-income residential areas.<\/p>\n
“If New York City is going to remain competitive in the global economy, we must find ways to support the entrepreneurs who are driving technological advances and creating jobs,” Bloomberg said.<\/p>\n
Bloomberg, who ends his term as mayor at the end of December after 12 years, has sought to turn New York into a high-tech capital to rival California’s Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco.<\/p>\n
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